STRAITS SETTLEMENTS.
SECRE T.
GOVERNOR
DE INT
STRAITS
aine
MAL
PLEMENTS
D
2. 3 APR 1930
GOVERNMENT HOUSE.
SINGAPORE.
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My Lord,
25-March, 1930.
I have the honour to invite Your Lordship's
attention to Sir Miles Lampson's despatch to the Foreign
Office, No.1348 of the 16th September, 1929, and to my
secret despatch as Governor of Hong Kong dated 9th
January, 1930, on the subject of the protection of
British subjects of Chinese race in China, and to inform
Your Lordship that since my arrival in Singapore I have
conferred with the Colonial Secretary, Straits Settle-
ments, with the Chief Secretary, Federated Malay States,
and with the Secretaries for Chinese Affairs in the
Straits Settlements and Federated Malay States, on the
position with regard to this question as it arises in
Malaya and I now submit for Your Lordship's consideration
the views which I have arrived at on this subject, and
which are shared by the officers whom I have consulted.
2. It is desirable that the conditions under which
a Chinese born in Malaya should be given British protect-
ion in China should be the same as those under which
Chinese born in Hong Kong are afforded that protection.
While, however, Chinese born in the Straits Settlements
are by virtue of their birth in British territory,
British subjects, Chinese born in the Federated and
Unfederated Malay States have the status not of British
subjects but of British Protected Persons.
The Right Honourable
The Lord Passfield of
etc.
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